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UNINA9910451695303321 |
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Autore |
Malague Rosemary <1961-, > |
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Titolo |
An actress prepares : women and "the method" / / Rosemary Malague |
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London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2012 |
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ISBN |
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1-136-50389-7 |
1-136-50390-0 |
0-203-14467-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (265 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Method acting |
Feminism and theater |
Sex discrimination against women |
Sexism |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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An Actress Prepares Women and "the Method"; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. The "Given Circumstances"; 2. Emotional Control: Lee Strasberg as "Big Daddy" of the Method; 3. Script Analysis: Stella Adler's Feminist Subtext; 4. Exercises in Repetition: Sanford Meisner and "Instinct"; 5. Respect for the Actress: Uta Hagen on Playing Female Roles; 6. The "Magic If": Forward-Looking Conclusions; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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'Every day, thousands of women enter acting classes where most of them will receive some variation on the Stanislavsky-based training that has now been taught in the U.S. for nearly ninety years. Yet relatively little feminist consideration has been given to the experience of the student actress: What happens to women in Method actor training?'An Actress Prepares is the first book to interrogate Method acting from a specifically feminist perspective. Rose Malague addresses ""the Method"" not only with much-needed critical distance, but also the crucial insid |
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